Publications

Educators

29 Aug 2016
News

Health Insurers’ Pullback Threatens to Create Monopolies

June 2013
Supplement

Boston Children's Hospital Assignment Worksheet

By: Robert S. Kaplan

Keywords: Health Care; Time-Driven Activity-Based Costing; Costing; Hospitals; Activity Based Costing and Management

01 May 2008
News

Interview: Does Our Health System Deliver Value?

01 Jan 2008
News

Value-based Health Care: The MD Anderson Experience

Article

Consumer-Driven Health Care: Freeing Providers to Innovate

By: Regina E. Herzlinger

Keywords: Health Care and Treatment; Customers; Innovation and Invention; Health Industry

01 Dec 2007
News

Where Are the Innovators in Health Care?

billion of the excessive costs of U.S. health care while all too many quality measures have worsened. Patients learn — sometimes the hard way — to bring along an assertive, intelligent loved one to protect... View Details

Keywords: Regina E. Herzlinger; Health, Social Assistance; Management

November 2021
Article

Determining Variable Costs in the Acute Urolithiasis Cycle of Care Through Time-driven Activity-based Costing

By: Tyler R. McClintock, David F. Friedlander, Aiden Y. Feng, Mahek A. Shah, Daniel J. Pallin, Steven L. Chang, Angela M. Bader, Thomas W. Feeley, Robert S. Kaplan and George E. Haleblian

Objective. To characterize full cycle of care costs for managing an acute ureteral stone using time-driven activity-based costing.
Methods. We defined all phases of care for patients presenting with an acute ureteral stone and built an... View Details

Keywords: Time-Driven Activity-Based Costing; Health Care and Treatment; Cost; Activity Based Costing and Management

September 2014 (Revised May 2017)
Case

Fresno's Social Impact Bond for Asthma

By: John A. Quelch and Margaret L. Rodriguez

In 2014, Social Impact Bonds (SIBs) were quickly gaining popularity as an investment vehicle which joined together private investors and nonprofits to tackle social issues. Although numerous SIB projects and proposals had cropped up across the U.S. following the launch... View Details

Keywords: Social Enterprise; Health Care; Marketing; Bonds; Financing; Asthma; Air Pollution; Air Quality; Chronic Disease; Public Health; Health; Health Care and Treatment; Finance; Health Industry; Health Industry; United States

Educators

01 Dec 2011
News

Research With Impact: Changing Global Health Practices

public policy, and social challenges. In health care, for example, the dominant policy model assumes that access and affordability are the keys to improving care for the poor. In Ashraf’s view, “We can’t... View Details

Keywords: birth control; Administration of Housing Programs, Urban Planning, and Community Development; Government

October 5, 2017
Article

Making Patients and Doctors Happier—The Potential of Patient-Reported Outcomes

By: Lisa Rotenstein, Robert S. Huckman and Neil Wagle

Keywords: Health Care; Outcomes Measurement; Outcomes Reporting; Quality; Health Industry

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November 2013
Article

Learning from My Successes and from Others' Failures: Evidence from Minimally Invasive Cardiac Surgery

By: D. KC, B. Staats and F. Gino

Learning from past experience is central to an organization's adaptation and survival. A key dimension of prior experience is whether an outcome was successful or unsuccessful. While empirical studies have investigated the effects of success and failure in... View Details

Keywords: Healthcare; Health Care; Knowledge Work; Attribution Theory; Quality; Success; Medical Specialties; Health Care and Treatment; Failure; Learning; Health Industry

18 Oct 2016
News

Why Business Should Invest in Community Health

January 2014 (Revised March 2014)
Teaching Note

Cancer Screening in Japan: Market Research and Segmentation

By: John A. Quelch

Keywords: Market Research; Market Segmentation; Health Care Industry; Health Care and Treatment; Innovation and Invention; Marketing Strategy; Health Industry; Health Industry; Health Industry; Japan

28 Feb 2017
News

Genomic Data Collaborations Advancing in Hopes of Improving Personalized Cancer Research, Care

Web

Health Business Fulltext Elite | Baker Library

Health Business Fulltext Elite Journal articles on all non-clinical aspects of health care management. Read More Includes aspects of health View Details

Spring 2014
Article

The Market for Blood

By: Robert Slonim, Carmen Wang and Ellen Garbarino

Donating blood, "the gift of life," is among the noblest activities and it is performed worldwide nearly 100 million times annually. The economic perspective presented here shows how the gift of life, albeit noble and often motivated by altruism, is heavily influenced... View Details

Keywords: Altruism; Philanthropy; Analysis Of Health Care Markets; Market Design; Philanthropy and Charitable Giving; Health